With newspapers shutting down their arts review sections left, right and centre, does theatre now stop when the curtain comes down, asks Tim Walker.
“Another day, yet another newspaper critic in @ThatTimWalker faces the axe,” the Tricycle Theatre in north London tweeted recently, when it was announced the curtain was coming down on my run as the Sunday Telegraph’s chief theatre critic. “What’s going on? Theatre will be the poorer without these voices.”
The great director Michael Grandage, along with Bill Kenwright’s company, Sir Howard Panter’s Ambassador Theatre Group and Jamie Lloyd’s Trafalgar Studios, among many others, retweeted this howl of despair – and one can well understand it.
Agree with my reviews or not – and, goodness knows, a lot of people certainly didn’t in the early days when I was known as The Critic They Love to Hate – but at least I turned up with my notebook for the first nights. Now, all too often, the seats in the stalls where my colleagues and I used to sit are being left vacant... Keep reading on The Guardian
“Another day, yet another newspaper critic in @ThatTimWalker faces the axe,” the Tricycle Theatre in north London tweeted recently, when it was announced the curtain was coming down on my run as the Sunday Telegraph’s chief theatre critic. “What’s going on? Theatre will be the poorer without these voices.”
The great director Michael Grandage, along with Bill Kenwright’s company, Sir Howard Panter’s Ambassador Theatre Group and Jamie Lloyd’s Trafalgar Studios, among many others, retweeted this howl of despair – and one can well understand it.
Agree with my reviews or not – and, goodness knows, a lot of people certainly didn’t in the early days when I was known as The Critic They Love to Hate – but at least I turned up with my notebook for the first nights. Now, all too often, the seats in the stalls where my colleagues and I used to sit are being left vacant... Keep reading on The Guardian